If it couldn't be any clearer, the foreign policy of NZ at this time is to gently and lovingly lick American fascist boot while staring up hoping for a pat on the fucking head.

People are going to die because of this.

This is directly imperils universal franchise and puts a thumb on the scales of election results. It will also have the very bad side effect of making people uncertain about the voting process and suspicious of the systems in place. #nzpol

The most obvious explanation is once again proven true: barring enrolments during advance voting was purely a pretext to deny franchise to a group of people who vote mostly against govt parties, so as to avoid the govt losing seats between election-night & final counts www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Even captain Janeway has had enough

Ah, not good. Where do Real Estate Agents place on the graph of least trustworthy occupations? Not far from politicians.

Andrew Hoggard (ACT) is proposing to increase the amount of the likely cancer-causing herbicide allowed on food by 100-fold. #nzpol Death cult.

National keep boasting about record rural confidence. That's because National are allowing farmers to increase cancer linked glysophate in food by 100x, making it legal for farmers to dump toxins into freshwater & ignore climate responsibility. Farmers are cool but not at the expense of all #nzpol

Drs (and nurses, teachers too) only ever strike as an absolute last resort - and because they care about YOU and the service they can provide to you. Unsafe staffing impacts you. Exhausted Drs impacts you. Underpaid Drs means they LEAVE. I stand with our Drs today, and always. #nzpol

That paracetamol causes autism shit is so outlandish, so clownish, so dangerous, so impossible, so awful, so laughable, so damaging I CANNOT stand it. I feel for all my neurodiverse friends in the US ❤️

Privatizing leads to facism.

IT IS I FUCKEN KNEW IT www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

@ambercules.keepetclassy.com @gabrielenguard.bsky.social "REPRESSED MEMORIES. REPRESSED MEMORIES."

2024 was 'survive until 25' 2025 is 'it'll be fixed in 26' 2026 will be 'economic heaven in 27' In 2027 it'll be 'Palantir is happy to announce former NZ PM Christopher Luxon has been appointed to the board, following the recent appointment of former NZ Finance Minister Nicola Wilis

Again, Most "unfair muscle mass " in sports, is straight cis boys taking steroids. Most "gender affirming care for children," is straight cis boys getting gyno surgery to remove the unwanted boobs that they grew, because they took steroids. 🙂🙃 No one really cares about "fairness in sports." 🤷🏿‍♂️

#nzpol Big turnout for the Women’s Day of Action for pay equity. Billions of dollars have been stolen from low-paid female dominated workforces. This government can find huge tax cuts for tobacco companies, landlords, and big businesses - but not fair pay. That must change.

Don’t forget they gutted pay equity, want to abolish the Ministry for Women, thought it was a “good day” when Roe v. Wade fell, want family (women) to do unpaid labour in hospitals, removed Relationship & Sexuality education guidelines… and want you to believe everything they’re doing is normal.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

@commandersterling.bsky.social Hey, mate, haven't seen you post much recently, but is the YT show on hold? I really miss your rants and industry teardowns! 💗

Environment Canterbury has declared a nitrate emergency over drinking water pollution worries. The intensive dairy industry has contaminated lakes, rivers, and drinking water with unsafe levels of nitrate - putting rural communities' health at risk. Image credit: Sharon Murdoch / Stuff #nzpol

National: I have got us back on track NZ: you fucked up a perfectly good economy is what you did. look at it, it's got recession

In the past year alone, the current govt has passed a law that gave more of our taxpayer money away to benefit landlords ($2.9 Billion) than the govt has spent in the entire 36-year history of all the Treaty of Waitangi settlements ($2.2 Billion). #nzpol drgarypayinda.substack.com/p/maori-ward...

Stuart Nash dumped from trade trip. The bigger question is why he was on it in the first place & why Erica Stanford thinks recruiting rich Americans is good for NZ. Nash runs a "consultancy" selling "golden visas" & boasts it's not what you know but who that matters - this is how they flog us off.

The thing that fucks me off most about this is we were studying nitrates and overallocation in the Canterbury plains at university 20 FUCKING YEARS AGO.

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

All Kiwis value healthcare. Private healthcare doesn't cover complex cases, ED, accidents. Simeon Brown & National lied about healthcare funding, using 2018 data & GST. They refuse to reveal privatisation contracts. And funding private healthcare investors 350% + more than community GPs. #nzpol

Please make sure anyone you know voting in Selwyn watches this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz35... #nzpol #rolleston #lincoln #selwyn #darfield #westmelton #kirwee #hororata #leeston #springston #springfield

I can't find the Casey Costello corruption news on front page of any media but RNZ. That's been the case from the start. Also, this isn't the first time she's been found acting contrary to the law. The Chief Ombudsman found the same last year & not one journo is chasing this ex TPU Chair anywhere

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

We need to be able to afford to heat our homes not give your investors more $$. There’s nothing to fix he says. 115,000+ households in NZ can’t afford to heat their homes and the entitled sorted bloke wants us to believe it’s not broken. Nationalise it. #nzpol

If Luxon refuses to commit to recognising Palestine and sanctioning Israel at PostCab today, journalists should just ask him straight up whether he supports genocide, whether war criminals should be prosecuted, whether Aotearoa supports international law, whether we support the ICC...

For ffs, it’s way past time for companies and their directors to stop making us (taxpayers) pay for cleaning up their messes while the pocket the gains from their dirty businesses. From dairying, mining through to forestry and all other polluters and environmental vandals - clean up & pay up. #nzpol

Breaking: The @wsj.com is reporting that the comment was not made by Brian Kilmeade but by an unidentified transgender person

The FBI director guy quoting the Christchurch killer. Good thing Kash Patel and the FBI have no connection to NZ and haven't been in our news lately. Boy, that would be awkward. Imagine that #nzpol

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

The president of the ACT party groomed and raped teenagers. There is evidence (and allegations) that the party leader covered it up. Is this kind of behaviour acceptable for a deputy prime minister in NZ? Was his honesty and fitness for leadership ever persistently questioned in relation to this?

A 2023 report showed Uber's New Zealand subsidiaries paid just over $1 million in tax while shifting over $200 million offshore. If this money had been recorded as profit in New Zealand, it would have resulted in an additional $56 million in tax revenue. cfotech.co.nz/story/uber-s...

Incompetent and a fucking liar

In almost any other NZ government in *history* Willis would be long gone by now. The only things that are different are a PM who enables it and a media that helps cover it up and move it on single reports without follow-up are NOT holding MPs accountable www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Israel have just hit Greta Thunberg's flotilla with a drone attack in International Waters. This is who they are, War Criminals.

Counter arguement; no, we fucking dont. We fight for value for OUR money. For OUR services. We stop this govt creating yet more ways of funnelling public money into private pockets.

Ok, let’s do this one last time. Spider-Man: Beyond the #SpiderVerse comes exclusively to theaters June 4 2027

Taxpayers Union is playing a nefarious, anti-democracy game, in my opinion, but their goals are surprisingly specific: i.e. local control, privatisation of local assets, and synchronising with National Party/ACT policy #nzpol #kiwi

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Oriini Kaipara has retained Tāmaki Makaurau for Te Pāti Māori. In six weeks, she stood tall against a veteran MP& proved the strength of mana motuhake, courage, & humility This win belongs to Tāmaki, to every volunteer, & to all who believe in Te Tiriti and the power of our people ❤️🖤🤍 #NZPol

With the $8.5B hole in National’s budget & the fact that ACT policies would ruin us further, this is the perfect opportunity for progressive policies to step into the void. We can save Aotearoa by creating jobs that build green infrastructure to address intensifying climate disruption. #nzpol